Why non matching magazines?
 

Why is it, that so many WW2 military lugers have a non matching magazine?
Were the magazines separated from the handgun after the capitulation?
Even bring backs have mostly a non matching magazine.

:confused:

You see this same thing with most of the Kar98 rifles as well.

When the rifles were being surrended the bolt went in one pile and the rifle another.

They made no attempt to match them back up. The battle field pickups on the other hand remained all matching.

The russian capture guns were striped down to parts and refurbised and then reassembled with no regard to matching up the numbers.

I would think with lugers there are many other factors that would cause a mag mismatch as well.

Thanks
 

Matt,
yes, this makes sense.

Too bad, considering this modern age of Internet communications, there isn't a clearing house of sorts where folks can list their part numbers to swap 'em back.

Incorrect. There have been lists and efforts to mate magazines and guns for many, many years, even predating the internet. Do a search on this forum and you will find some :)

Very cool! I stand corrected. What a remarkable set of circumstances it seems it would take to reunite original gun with original magazine or bolt!

I actually FOUND the matching magazine to my Mauser, on Don Hallock's master list, but the owner had passed away, and Don doesn't want collectors bothering the remaining members of the family, so the owner contact information was removed from his database.....So close, yet SO far....:crying:

We have also observed on this forum the reuniting of a WW1 shoulder stock with the original Artillery Luger... a miracle of the world wide reach of this forum.

Let's not forget about that sideplate that was reunited. That was a one in a million shot too.